A 3-week course in AI Empowerment.
Empowerment, discernment, sovereignty. In this 3-week course, we train the capacities needed to use AI to step more fully into our potential, without losing ourselves in the process.
14–30 July 2026
Each session is a combination of teaching and context-setting, experiential exercises, dialogues, and group practices. There will also be labs and homework for each session to help you really land and integrate the material.
We set the scene and get our hands dirty right away. You'll build a website with AI as the learning vehicle — feeling directly what these tools can do when you give them the context they need. We'll get you set up with Claude Code and walk through prompting hygiene from first principles.
The empowerment week. We open the bonnet — tokens, context windows, agents, what actually happens when you type into Claude — without jargon and without dumbing it down, and learn the single mental model that makes every failure mode coherent and predictable. Then we extend that understanding outward: connecting AI to your notes, your calendar, your email, and having the honest privacy conversation about what to share and what to hold.
Reflection and sharing. AI as a tool for self-discovery — used carefully so it sees you without capturing you. Self-inquiry, embodiment practices for staying connected to yourself as you work with these tools, and a closing circle where the group shares what they're each taking forward.
For anyone who wants to remain sovereign and empowered through this AI era.
You don’t need to be technical. Most people who take this aren’t. The point is the relationship to the tools, not the syntax. If you can have a conversation, you can do this.
It’s for people who sense AI is reshaping them and would rather do that consciously than be carried along by it. People who feel quietly overwhelmed by the pace and don’t quite know where to begin. People who refuse to outsource their judgement. People who’d rather use these tools to step more into who they already are than to be replaced by them.
I’m the founder of Depth First. Software engineer by training. Software trainer for the better part of a decade. Alongside that, a decade in coaching and deep relational work.
These two worlds that, for a long time felt separate, are now more clearly interconnected than ever. Staying connected to ourselves, being sovereign in our own hearts and minds, and trusting in our own judgement in the face of increasing uncertainty, are precisely the capacities that will be needed as we increasingly depend on these AI tools for knowledge work.
My coaching practice is about both discovery and creation. Discovering yourself and what’s really happening in you, so you can experience the freedom to create what you really want — both in your experience of being you (your being), and in your life circumstances. AI used well empowers all of this.
A world where AI makes people more themselves, not less — more awake, more creative, more discerning, more sovereign in their own judgement.
That’s what we’re building toward. One person, one cohort, at a time.
We’ll write when there’s something worth opening — when enrolment goes live, when early material is ready, when the next cohort is being shaped.